Marissa Brassfield

Marissa Brassfield

Los Angeles
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Jan 16

5 Essential Strategies for Effective Communication

Today's must-reads center on effective communication in an office setting. Modern leaders have an array of tools at
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Jan 14

3 Ways to Gamify Your Day

Cutting-edge offices around the world are gamifying work to boost employee productivity; leverage their strategies at home to gamify your
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Jan 13

5 Proven Ways to Reclaim Work-Life Balance in a 24-7 World

These proven ways to reclaim work-life balance will help you shut off the firehose of work email and after-hours phone
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Jan 12

Social Media Marketing for Startups [INFOGRAPHIC]

This Udemy infographic focuses on social media marketing for startups: specifically, the techniques, rationale and strategy to create online buzz
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Jan 11

Daniel Pink: How to Institute a Results-Only Work Environment

Yesterday, I shared compensation-centric highlights from this week's #HRBookChat Twitter book chat, which featured Daniel Pink; today'
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Jan 10

Karotz Social Media-Savvy Robots Save Time on Tech Tasks

Karotz ($129.99), adorable Internet-connected rabbits by U.K. company Violet, are now fully integrated with social networks, per the
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Jan 09

Daniel Pink on Employee Compensation and Engagement

On Monday night, "Drive" author Daniel Pink participated in the #HRBookChat Twitter chat; his insights on employee compensation
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Jan 09

UK Think Tank Proposes 20-Hour Workweek to Boost Economy

You might think that a universal 20-hour workweek would stifle the economy rather than boost it, but that's
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Jan 09

How to Be Efficient at Work Despite Lackluster Management

It's easy to stay motivated at work when you have an good manager at the helm; however, the
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Jan 08

5 Employee Retention Must-Reads

This year, 21 million Americans will switch jobs, making today's must-reads on employee retention especially apt. This career-switching
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Jan 08

Ridiculously Efficient on Pinterest: Infographics, Offices and More

Are you on Pinterest? If so, follow me, Marissa Brassfield, on Pinterest to see amazing offices, stunning office decor, productivity
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